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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(136,453 posts)
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 08:53 PM Tuesday

RFK Jr. Brazenly Says Measles Outbreaks Not His Fault: 'I've Never Been Anti-Vaccine'

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON – Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spent decades spreading dangerous disinformation about the safety of vaccines, insisted Tuesday that he’s played no role in the resurgence of measles cases in the United States.

“I’ve never been anti-vaccine,” Kennedy repeatedly claimed during testimony to a House committee about President Donald Trump’s 2027 budget request.

That’s not true, of course. This HHS secretary is easily the most famous critic of vaccines in the country. But he made nonsensical claims like this throughout the hearing, and what they all served to do — whether true or not — was help him avoid taking responsibility for the damage he’s caused to public health with his vaccine skepticism.

For hours, Democrats went after Kennedy for fueling distrust of vaccines as measles cases have exploded around the country. In his role as the nation’s top public health official, he has minimized the seriousness of measles outbreaks in Texas, emphasized the importance of personal choice over science, baselessly claimed the measles vaccine leads to “deaths every year” and misleadingly suggested the vaccine “causes all the illnesses that measles itself causes.”

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rfk-jr-brazenly-says-measles-224825288.html



How much more of your brain has that worm eaten?
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Javaman

(65,894 posts)
2. And the heroine addict is also a habitual liar
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 09:30 PM
Tuesday

I’m shocked I tells ya, shocked

He knows his days are numbered. He’s trying in that desperate way to dust over his tracks. The problem is: his tracks are in cement and he’s using a feather duster

Karasu

(2,055 posts)
3. If his days are numbered, it's taking too damn long. The fact that Kegsbreath survived Signalgate and is still throwing
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 10:06 PM
Tuesday

his weight around at all shows that these fascists have no standards, even for fascists.

Marie Marie

(11,398 posts)
5. He's never been Anti-Vaccine??? Isn't that kind of his thing???
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 11:21 PM
Tuesday

His claim to fame?? His major source of income as an attorney?? His hill to die on?? Need I go on?

You know, for people that lie as much as all these Trumpers, you'd think they would be better at it.

DBoon

(25,074 posts)
6. The liar's paradox at work
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 11:31 PM
Tuesday
In philosophy and logic, the classical liar paradox or liar's paradox or antinomy of the liar is the statement of a liar that they are lying: for instance, declaring that "I am lying". If the liar is indeed lying, then the liar is telling the truth, which means the liar just lied. In "this sentence is a lie", the paradox is strengthened in order to make it amenable to more rigorous logical analysis.


- wikipedia

Solly Mack

(97,086 posts)
8. He tells people he's "pro-safety" (about vaccines) to cover for his anti-vaccine wackadoodle beliefs.
Wed Apr 22, 2026, 02:30 AM
Yesterday

As in - I'm not saying that vaccines will kill you, but (list of bullshit bad things that will happen if you get the vaccines). The - I'm only trying to help codswallop.

He sets out to discourage people from getting vaccines and judging from a lot of his other statements, he does so as a means to put into practice his egomaniacal (and prejudicial) ideas of what is and isn't good for humanity. A humanity defined more by who he thinks should be left off the list.

He has wanted for years to have the national platform and power he has now to put his warped thinking into action. His is, quite literally, using the America people as his test subjects, pushing his self-aggrandizing and conjecture-based "ideas" onto the nation.

He sees himself as some sort of healing spiritual guru and that people need only follow his advice to achieve good health - though he is the typical do as I say and not as I do hypocrite and charlatan.

He vaccinated his own children and he, himself, got vaccinations. Probably still does - shingles, pneumonia shots, etc..

He will kill people and there is no way he can legitimately claim it wasn't intentional.

The man knows better - he simply doesn't care because he's out to prove himself right.





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